Opposition, govt coalition members sign petition for Zardari’s production order
June 19, 2019
ISLAMABAD: Members of the Opposition and government coalition parties on Wednesday signed a petition for the issuance of former president Asif Ali Zardari's production order.
According to sources, at the request of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), members of the government coalition parties signed the petition application.
The petition application was signed by Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Syed Aminul Haque, Balochistan National Party Chairman Sardar Akhtar Mengal, Balochistan Awami Party’s Khalid Magsi and Jamhoori Wattan Party’s Shahzain Bugti, sources added.
Sources further said members of the government coalition parties said it is not about PPP co-chairman Zardari but it about the supremacy of democracy.
On June 10, the National Accountability Bureau arrested Zardari in the fake bank accounts case from Islamabad after a bench of the Islamabad High Court had rejected a plea filed by Zardari and his sister, Faryal Talpur, seeking an extension in their interim bail in the fake bank accounts case.
The case pertains to transactions worth hundreds of millions of rupees to the two leaders' private companies, allegedly, through fake bank accounts.
PM directs not to issue production orders for Zardari, others: sources
According to sources, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday issued directives for not issuing production orders for any member of the National Assembly, including Zardari.
The prime minister issued the directives during a meeting he presided over here of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and coalition parties.
Addressing the participants, he termed members of the opposition "thieves, robbers", saying that nowhere in the world criminals came to the parliament on productions orders to deliver speeches against the prime minister or the government.
